Part one of term paper
Many times history tends to repeat itself. During the late 1600’s witch hunts occurred in Massachusetts; over two hundred years later a similar “witch hunt� occurred in the search for communists during the McCarthy era. The playwright Arthur Miller made connections between these two events, which seem entirely unrelated. He showed th ...

Part two of term paper
... instability were direct results of the hypocrisy and hysteria of the time. Also present in the play were associations between Miller and his fight to end the communist hunt, and the fight by characters in the play to end the witch hunts. During the two time periods discussed, hypocrisy and hysteria played a major role in causing the instability in the people. This instability gave certain people uncontrollable amounts of power. In Salem, many people turned on one another to save themselves from ...